Background
Doctor Higiro was born in Rwanda under Belgian rule in 1945.
Doctor Higiro was born in Rwanda under Belgian rule in 1945.
Later, he studied abroad in North America, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin.
He matriculated at the National University of Rwanda. On July 31, 1993, Doctor Higiro was appointed director of the Rwandan Information Office by the coalition government led by Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. He left Kigali on April 9 and arrived in Nairobi on April 10, 1994 during a United States embassy evacuation.
He left Nairobi for the United States on July 19, 1994, the day he was supposed to be sworn in as minister of information in the RPF led government headed by Faustin Twagiramungu.
During the Civil war Doctor Higiro was targeted for his "moderate beliefs" and his enemies plotted to murder him. He ended up escaping with his immediate family.
Doctor Higiro settled in Massachusetts and became a communications professor at Western New England University, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Doctor Higiro"s time in the United States. has not been uneventful.
In the late 1990s, his enemies attempted to murder him in the United States., but they did not succeed.
In February 2008, the Washington Post reported that current Rwandan authorities had requested that the United States arrest Higiro and accused him of providing financial support of ethnic Rwandan rebel fighters in eastern Congo.